ABSTRACT

This comprehensive text provides a practical introduction to the range of qualitative methodologies and methods being used by occupational science and occupational therapy researchers today, enabling readers to produce and critique high-quality qualitative research themselves.

Showcasing a diverse range of qualitative research from both academic scholarship and the wider community of health professionals, each chapter combines both foundational knowledge and therapeutic applications. Importantly, the book lucidly explains the synergy between research problem, choice of methodology, and methods. It also fosters a best-practice approach, ensuring that qualitative research is epistemologically sound while reflecting the values and beliefs of the diverse communities within which research is conducted.

This new edition, featuring an international range of authors, also addresses new and cutting-edge research methodologies, including Indigenous methodologies, netnography, the visual arts, and Big data. It is the ideal textbook for any student, practitioner, or researcher of occupational science and occupational therapy.

chapter 2|18 pages

Tenets of Qualitative Research

Deepening Understandings

chapter 3|22 pages

Connections, Disruptions, and Transformations

Decolonizing Qualitative Research

chapter 4|16 pages

Qualitative Descriptive

A Very Good Place to Start

chapter 5|20 pages

Grounded Theory

chapter 6|17 pages

Phenomenology

chapter 9|20 pages

Ethnography

chapter 13|22 pages

Visual Methodologies

Photovoice in Focus

chapter 14|20 pages

Community-Based Research

chapter 16|15 pages

Netnography

chapter 17|14 pages

Big Qualitative Data

chapter 18|14 pages

Best (or Better?) Practices